Crossword clues for adobe
adobe
- Acrobat software creator
- Acrobat company
- Western building material
- Western brick
- Town north of Phoenix
- Taos Pueblo material
- Taos building material
- Sun-baked building material
- Photoshop producer
- Photoshop developer
- Mexicali building block
- InDesign maker
- Dry-climate building material
- Desert construction
- Desert building material
- Company that makes Photoshop and Illustrator
- Clay-brick building
- Clay for brickmaking
- Clay construction
- Clay brick structure
- Casa brick
- Building clay
- Acrobat originator
- Yellow clay
- Western house
- Type of abode
- Tijuana construction material
- Taos housing
- Taos dwelling
- Sun-dried material
- Sun-dried clay
- Southwestern building brick
- Southwestern building
- Southwest construction
- Southwest building brick
- Southwest building block
- Southwest building
- Southwest brick
- Solar-treated brick
- Software company that makes Photoshop and Flash Player
- Software company that makes InDesign and Acrobat
- Shockwave producer
- Sante Fe brick
- San Jose software company
- Relative of a mudbrick
- Reader maker
- Pueblo's exterior
- Pueblo building brick
- Pueblo block
- Producer of Acrobat
- Premiere hoster?
- Pioneer building material
- Photoshop source
- Photoshop software developer
- Photoshop firm
- Mudbrick relative
- Mud-baked brick
- Material used to construct pueblos
- Material for many missions
- Makeup of some Santa Fe buildings
- Maker of Photoshop
- Maker of Acrobat and Photoshop
- Kit Carson Home makeup
- InDesign software company
- InDesign company
- Hut brick
- House with fireproof walls
- Hopi building material
- Home in the southwest
- Hacienda building block
- Flash provider
- Flash Player creator
- Flash company
- Dreamweaver company
- Document Cloud company
- Creator of Creative Cloud software
- Company that makes Photoshop and Acrobat Reader
- Claylike building material
- Claylike building block
- Clayey brick
- Clay-like building
- Clay material
- Clay hut material
- Clay home
- Clay + straw + water + sunshine
- Certain brick house
- Building material out West
- Brickmaker's clay
- Brick of the Southwest
- Brick made of clay
- Brick baking in the sun
- Big name in graphics software
- Big name in digital fonts
- Battle of ___ Walls (Indian Wars engagement)
- Baked-mud brick
- Baja brick
- Anasazi dwelling
- Acrobat's platform
- Acrobat Reader maker
- Acrobat creator
- Acrobat and Illustrator company
- ___ Systems Incorporated (San Jose-based software firm)
- ___ Systems (Photoshop developer)
- ___ Acrobat Reader (software for viewing PDFs)
- ___ Acrobat (publishing program for PDF files)
- ___ Acrobat
- Desert home
- Southwest home
- Zuni home
- Southwestern home material
- Desert clay
- Pueblo material
- Hut material
- Pueblo home
- Big name in Web software
- Moderate brown
- Building brick used in clay homes
- Building block?
- Brick type
- Pueblo brick material
- Desert brick
- Mojave home
- Hacienda brick
- Feat of clay?
- Clay bricks
- Building material that may contain straw
- Arizona home
- Hot-climate building material
- Hacienda material, in song
- Block in the Southwest
- Big name in digital software
- Clay for bricks
- Pueblo dwelling
- Reservation residence
- With 48-Across, popular computer product
- Sun-dried brick
- Acrobat software maker
- Building made of bricks
- Brick material
- Acrobat developer
- Brick house material
- Acrobat producer
- Illustrator software maker
- Building material for an 80-Across (in two different ways?)
- Used in hot dry climates
- Reservation dwelling
- Shade of brown
- Hogan material
- Brick in the Southwest
- Taos house
- Clay used for building
- Baked-clay structure
- Dry-climate brick structure
- Playa clay
- Unburnt brick
- House of clay
- Casa material, perhaps
- Southwestern building material
- Kind of brick
- Heavy clay
- Brick building
- Certain building material
- Kind of flat
- Taos brick
- Home for arid climates
- Brick structure in the Southwest
- Anagram for abode
- Dry-climate dwelling
- Southwest building material
- Unburnt, sun-dried brick
- Type of brick
- Pueblo Indian's shelter
- Western home
- Cheap brick-makings
- Clay house
- Type of clay
- Mud brick
- Clay for sun-dried bricks
- Captain who's drawn from harbour by drunk
- Notice gong in traditional house
- Building material in publicity given award
- Difficulty with extremely brittle building material
- Small bills
- __ Reader
- Southwestern brick material
- Photoshop maker
- Hopi home
- Earthen brick
- Baked brick building
- Sun-baked brick
- Brick dried in the sun
- Mexican abode
- Flash producer
- Brick of clay and straw
- Acrobat maker
- Photoshop company
- Brick made of clay and straw
- Baked-brick building
- Sun-dried clay of the Southwest
- Pueblo building material
- Photoshop creator
- Arizona brick
- Acrobat software company
- Taos material
- Sun-dried building material
- Southwestern home
- Santa Fe brick
- PDF creator
- New Mexico sight
- Earthen building material
- Clay structure
- Brick clay
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adobe \A*do"be\ ([.a]*d[=o]"b[asl]), n. [Sp.]
An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.]
(Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1739, American English, from Spanish adobe, from oral form of Arabic al-tob "the brick," from Coptic tube "brick," a word found in hieroglyphics.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unburnt brick dried in the sun. 2 The earth from which such bricks are made. 3 A house made of adobe brick.
WordNet
n. the clay from which adobe bricks are made
sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates [syn: adobe brick]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Adobe (, ; , from Spanish: mud brick, from Arabic) is a building material made from earth and often organic material. Adobe is among the earliest building materials, and is used throughout the world.
Technically, adobe refers to sun-dried mud-brick constructions only, but modern English usage tends to include other mud-based structures like cob and rammed earth buildings.
Usage examples of "adobe".
The seventeen doomed men were offered a meal and an opportunity to speak with a priest before they were lined up along an adobe wall and shot.
Long Quiet soon found himself in the cool, candle-lit interior of the adobe hacienda.
There is a large adobe house on the property, where my grandparents lived before my father built this hacienda.
It would be hard to live in an adobe house after spending so many years in a tipi.
She forced herself to leave that idyllic picture to examine the rest of the adobe house.
Bay flattened herself against the rough adobe wall and held her hands out in front of her as he started walking toward her.
Bay had been marrying Jonas Harper for the silks and silver his money could buy her, she could be so obviously happy with the few simple things he provided in this adobe house.
Bay had never seen Rancho Dolorosa and was impressed by the huge whitewashed adobe house with its veranda overlooking the Brazos River.
Bay came racing out of the adobe house and hugged Sloan as she stepped down from her horse.
She pulled her shawl closer around her against the chilly air and returned to the adobe house.
Bay felt a shiver of foreboding when she saw Sloan riding toward the adobe house.
When they arrived at the adobe house, Bay quickly nursed Whipp, fully intending to put him to bed and end the evening in the way that had been denied her for the past few months.
He pressed her up against the adobe wall and held her there with the length of his hard, sinewy body.
The woman appeared to be Hispanic and said something quickly to Casey before rushing back into the tiny adobe house.
She followed the girl through the wardrobe and into the small passageway between the thick adobe walls.